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Pretty good and more on kyoya and his family. His older sister fuyumi should have gotten more screentime, kikuko inoue was little too much like belldandy. Not what I expected although seeing kyoya out of his usual "cool" character is always funny. I did think kyoya was going to murder tamaki and his selfish whims. Next week the fecal matter interfaces with the girating unit as the club disbands!?.

Overall, it's a rather muted episode without the comedy that made last week's episode fun. I was, however, amused with Tamaki's obsession with Kotatsu. Next week's episode should be a lot more exciting, I think.

Pretty good and more on kyoya and his family. His older sister fuyumi should have gotten more screentime, kikuko inoue was little too much like belldandy. Not what I expected although seeing kyoya out of his usual "cool" character is always funny. I did think kyoya was going to murder tamaki and his selfish whims. Next week the fecal matter interfaces with the girating unit as the club disbands!?.

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I rather enjoyed Kikuko Inoue's performance as Fuyumi, especially since the last major role I remember her in was Ureshiko in Oku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo (Yukariko was too minor a role in Otome) - and that was last year.
As for this episode, it was decent overall. Ouran eps just done quite shine as much when there aren't as many laughs. But at least we got to see the many angry sides of Kyoya.

Can anyone check which real issue of The New York Times this corresponds with? I think it's Vol. CLIV No. 81,279.
EDIT: Wait, no, I don't think it exists... Vol. CLIV came out on April 17th, 2005...but it was No.53,187.

I liked this epi, it was a nice change I guess and it gave us background info and both Kyou and Tamaki. Hearing Tamaki speak French was awesome too, the little it was XD Its easy to see why Kyou found him so annoying.

Hmm, looks like almost a year has passed in the anime Ouran universe. Episode 2 was about a Christmas party, then there were the Karuizawa episodes, which was summar vacation. Episode 21 was Halloween and the beginning of episode 24 hints that it's late autumn.

So...now I'm confused. How is the school year working in Ouran? I originally assumed that the school year starts in April, given how Kyoya meets Tamaki and takes him to places mostly during summer vacation and finally snaps in August/September. Then Tamaki first suggests his idea of a Host Club during winter of his last year in middle school department and approaches the Hitachiin brothers with the prediction that they'll open the door in April, which the twins do right after their school year opening ceremony.

A nice change of pace this episode. Some more background on the characters is always good to know. At least now we (and Haruhi) can understand why Kyouya has stuck around Tamaki so long. I also thought Fuyumi was pretty funny. The sister of the great Ootori family unable to reorganize the contents of the drawers, leaving her brother's room in a constant state of untidiness.

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Originally Posted by Li Jianliang

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Tamaki has turned into a Kyoya fangirl, too? XDDD

All too true , especially watching him cuddle Kyouya like that.

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Originally Posted by Li Jianliang

I originally assumed that the school year starts in April, given how Kyoya meets Tamaki and takes him to places mostly during summer vacation and finally snaps in August/September. Then Tamaki first suggests his idea of a Host Club during winter of his last year in middle school department and approaches the Hitachiin brothers with the prediction that they'll open the door in April, which the twins do right after their school year opening ceremony.

I don't think you were wrong in your assumption here. The dance party in episode 2 did take place at the start of the school year in spring, so we can safely say that a complete year has not passed yet. Perhaps seven or eight months, because we know for sure that Halloween has passed.

They're doing exactly the same level of stuff that I'm doing in school now... but from the notation of summation that we learned, shouldn't the stuff at the bottom of the sigma say "t=something" or "x=something" instead of just a number or negative infinity? I mean it doesn't have relevance to the expression after the sigma notation... but that's just me nitpicking :P And woot, it's integration...

Not like my maths is good or anything

And the essay he's writing, from whatever I understand, is like.... philosophical bullshit. And about how the people need a new theory or something. I think they tried to keep it purposely vague...

Actually I have to admit Tamaki became even less slick/cool than he seemed to be after this episode. Behind the facade I think he's really quite insecure. I guess I look at him in that way because even though it's a joke I really can't stand when people say they want to go here and there and are a nuisance, then they get serious, and then when you respond seriously they try to get the upper hand by giving you a 'cool', 'I know better than to be over-serious' type of reply... although it wasn't exactly what he was doing but he reminded me of certain people...